An 18-year-old young man who stabbed three girls to death in July in England was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with a minimum term of 52 years for this attack which sparked violent riots last summer.
“It is very likely that he will never be released,” Judge Julian Goose said as he delivered his verdict at Liverpool Crown Court. Throughout the hearing on Thursday, the chilling details of the murders of the three children aged 6, 7 and 9 on July 29, 2024 were revealed.
They were chased and stabbed at a dance class inspired by star Taylor Swift in Southport, an attack that sparked days of anti-immigration riots in dozens of towns.
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If he could, he would have killed every child and every adult in his path.
The perpetrator of the killing, born in 2006 in Wales into a Christian family originally from Rwanda, showed “violence so extreme” that it is “difficult to understand” the attack, the judge said. The body of one of the victims bore more than 120 knife marks. Eight other children and two adults were injured. “If he could, he would have killed every child, as well as every adult in his path,” added the magistrate.
The accused pleaded guilty on Monday, cutting short the trial, which was initially scheduled to last four weeks. He could not be sentenced to irreducible life imprisonment because of his age at the time of the attack. He gave no explanation for his actions.
-“Premeditated and planned” attack
This attack was “premeditated and planned,” said prosecutor Deanna Heer, describing victims attacked from the back and stabbed multiple times, in a rampage of violence.
In police custody, the young man declared that he was “very happy” that these children were dead, she added.
“There is nothing that associates him with a political or religious ideology (…) His only objective was to kill,” declared Deanna Heer, in reference to the absence of “terrorist” qualification for these murders.
The police found in his home a machete, arrows, an Al-Qaeda manual in which he learned to make a poison, ricin, and numerous images of torture, decapitation or rape. He was “fascinated by extreme violence”, and had, among other things, documents on the genocide in Rwanda, the country where his family comes from.
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